The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara, Vol. I v1.c23.43

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5. Krishnappa Nayaka II is said, in the Vellangudi plates of Venkata II, to have been a very pious monarch: “He gave to the god Rangapati a *kavacha* studded with precious stones, a similarly bejewelled *ushnisha*, yellow silk garments, neck-laces, crown, earrings, waist-zones, and presented him further with villages and gardens, and made arrangements for the celebration of car festivals and the daily services. He set up a number of lights in the presence of the god Sundara Nayaka; made arrangements for bathing the image of the god in milk and for the car festival...He performed the ceremony of weighing himself against gold...he founded *agraharas* for Brahmans and protected them; he paid the Brahmans enough money to enable them thereby to redeem their lands situated in the countries of other kings, which were mortgaged for the purposes of paying taxes”².